Apparatus for quenching, screening, and loading coke.



C. PIEZ. APPARATUS FOR QUENCHINC, SCREENING, AND LOADING COKE.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 8. 1912.

Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

C. PIEZ. APPARATUS FOR QUENCHING, SCREENING, AND LOADING COKE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAY 8. I912. D Patented Nov. 28, 1916.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 FFICE.

CHARLES PIEZ. or CHICAGO. ILLinois, Assienos TO Linn-BELT COMPANY rumors. A corerosarron or ILLINOIS.

APPARATUS FOR QUENCHING. scnnsmne. AND LOADING: COKE.

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- cago, county ofCook. State of Illinois, have invented certain Improvements in Apparatus for Quenching. Screening. and'Loading Coke. of which the following aspecification.

Theobject of this invention is to construct an apparatus to lie-located at the discharge receives the coke as it is discharged from the "ovens. quenches it and finally discharges it;

the coke being screened as it is transferred to the cars. v

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 isa plan view of my improved apparatus; Fig. 2,-is a side view: Fig. 3 is atran'sverse section on the line 3- 3,- Fig. 1. of the coke oven; illustrating the ca and moving platform in elevation: and Fig. l. is a transverse section through the .car and platform. Referring to the drawings, A are the ovens of the ordinary type, having the coking chambers a. At the endof these chambers are discharge 'openings (1, having doors. The coke is discharged from the chamber a through these doorways.

B is a car having trucks 1); the wheels of which travel on rails 0" on the elevation in front of the ovens A! On the frame B of this car B are longitudinal beams B in the present instance, on which are the bearings for the supporting rollers 'b" for the moving platform D. This platform has rails (Z on the under side which rest upon the rollers; the rollers being flanged so as to properly guide the rails and thus hold the moving platform laterally in of the ovens and the moving platform can.

be moved longitudinally on the car as the coke is discharged from the oven. Extend: ing transversely abovethe moving platform D are sprinkl-ing devices G, consisting of a main pipe 9 and branches 9'. These specification of Letters Patent.

I Application fiiedMay 1912. Serial No. 696.005. I

v any of the usual types. end of a bank of coke ovens. Said apparatus I means. I

PatentedjNov.

branches may be of any length desii 'ed so as to forma spray suliicient to properly quench the coke asit passes under the spraying de vice. when the platform is moved. Project-1".-

ing .from'one side of the car body B is. a frame H on which is mounted a 'sc'reen l.

This screen is arranged at an angle and consists of a-series of bars and at the discharge: end of the screenis an undercut va'lvefh of I preferably reciprocate the deep an angle'as a fixed screen. 'In' -the.

72. having a rod. a connected to the screen; the screen shaft bemg drivenby any suitable Directly under the the side. ofthe elevation. but "at a lower levelis'a track P for the cars-ontowhichj' the coke is to be delivered. The cars S have moved on its pivot .over the surface' of'the moving platform to remove a" portion of the Y coke or the entire body coke which has accumulated on, the platform. The face of.

. this plow may be-of any shape-desired, either straight. as shown, or curved, if found preferabler 1 The operation of the mechanlsni is as fol-- 'lowsa. "When itis desired tojdischarge,the

coke from one or more ovens,- the forward end of the platform D-is brought in line with the oven to be discharge'd and whenthe discharge apparatus forces the coke from the oven, the platform D 1s moved'simul- I screen and' thus. the screen need not be arranged at so screen is adust hopper havlng a valve m to allow for the discharge of dust as it, accumulates in the hopper. At

taneously with the discharge, Whilethecar remains stationary and at the same time water is discharged from the quenching de vice onto the platform; Consequently the coke,'as it'is discharged from the oven, is spreadon the platform .andpasses under the quenching device, The coke after it passes the quenching device iscooled' by the action of the Water and if the platform be only of su'flicient length to receive the contents of one oven, then, after this oven is 'discharged,the ploWW is moved into a position to' act so that uponthe reversal-ofthe movement of the platform the coke will be vremoved from theplatforl'n and discharged laterally over the reciprocating screen I, if .this type of screen is used, and into the car S located underthe screen. 7 I

Eitherthe car S may be moved so as to be properly located or the car B, carrying the platform D, may be moved. After one car has been loaded, ,anothen car may be shifted into position to receive thematerial remaining on the platform. If the platform is of such a length as to receive the contents of two 'or more ovens, then the platform can be moved part-way to receive the discharge of one oven and during the remainder of the movement can receive the contents of another'oven.

It will be seenthat the-length of the plat form will depend considerably upon the size of thecoke ovens. If there be sufficient time between the discharge of one overland thedischarge of another oven, then the coke may remain on the platform to cool before being discharged into the cars.

I claim: y

l. The combination in a series of coke ovens having the discharge openings at one end, of a track extending along the front of the ovens; a, car-arranged to-travel on the track so as to be moved in front of any one of the ovens; a longitudinally moving platform on the-car; means for moving the platform so that as the platform is moved past the discharge endof the coke oven, while the coke "is being discharged, the coke will be distributed over the platform.

2. The combination in an apparatus for quenching, screening and loading coke, of a series of coke ovens having their discharge openings at the same and; a track located atthe discharge ends of the coke ovens and extending parallel with'the faces of the ovens and below the discharge openings; a car arranged to. travel on the track so as to be placed infront of any one of'the ovens; a platform mounted on the car and arranged to move longitudinally thereon; a fixed quenching device on the car and extending over the platform, said platform arranged to receivecoke from an oven in front of which the car is located; and means for longitudinally moving the platform inde-:

'pendently of the car so that the platform is moved at a given speed asjthe coke is discharged from the oven in order that it will 5 be spread on the platform and, as the movement of the platform continues, the coke will pass under the quenching device and be 'quen'ched.

3. The combination in an apparatus for quenching, screening and loading coke, of a series of coke ovens having their discharge openings at the same end; a track located at the discharge ends of the'coke ovens and extending parallel with the faces of theovens and below the discharge openings;- :1

car arranged to travel, on the track so as to be placed in frontof any one of the ovens; a platform mounted on the car and arranged [to move longitudinallv thereon; a fixed'70 quenching device on the car and extending over the platform, said platform arranged to receive coke-from an oven in front of which the car is located; means for longitudinally moving the platform-independently has moved forward. and receives the coke'the discharge plow can be moved so as to discharge the coke laterally from the platform on its return movement.

In testimony whereof, I have signed'mv name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesse CHARLES PIEZ.

' Witnesses:

' W. P. MACKEY,

E. O. lViLLLnIs. 

